OCPBUGS-111095: Do not cache non-definitive OIDC token endpoint errors during password grant check

[ShazaAldawamneh]

Fix permanent caching of challenge: false when the OIDC token endpoint returns a transient JSON error (e.g. invalid_client_credentials, server_error, temporarily_unavailable) during the dummy ROPC probe
Only cache definitive results: invalid_grant (grants supported), unsupported_grant_type / unauthorized_client (grants not supported); all other JSON errors skip the cache so the next sync loop retries.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved OIDC password-grant detection by distinguishing definitive OAuth responses.
  • Correctly allows password grants for invalid_grant responses and disallows them for unsupported grant types.
  • Prevents temporary, malformed, or unrecognized errors from being cached, allowing later successful checks to determine the correct state.

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Fix permanent caching of challenge: false when the OIDC token endpoint returns a transient JSON error (e.g. invalid_client_credentials, server_error, temporarily_unavailable) during the dummy ROPC probe
Only cache definitive results: invalid_grant (grants supported), unsupported_grant_type / unauthorized_client (grants not supported); all other JSON errors skip the cache so the next sync loop retries.

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Walkthrough

The OIDC password-grant flow now caches invalid_grant as allowed and unsupported_grant_type as disallowed. Other OAuth errors are logged and remain uncached. Tests cover these outcomes and retry behavior.

Changes

OIDC password-grant caching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Definitive outcome handling pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions.go, pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions_test.go	The conversion logic caches only definitive OAuth outcomes. Non-definitive errors remain uncached. Tests cover non-definitive errors, unsupported_grant_type, and a later definitive response after a transient error.

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This localized change adjusts caching so transient token-endpoint errors can be retried while preserving definitive results; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: preventing caching of non-definitive OIDC token endpoint errors during password grant checks.
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Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The changed tests use Go testing t.Run and testify require, not Ginkgo It/Expect/BeforeEach/AfterEach constructs; this Ginkgo-specific check is not applicable.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR adds only standard Go unit-test cases inside TestCheckOIDCPasswordGrantFlowCaching; it adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or MicroShift-incompatible API usage.
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Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff only changes OIDC token-response caching and tests; it adds no manifests, replicas, affinity, topology spread, node selectors, tolerations, or PDBs.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	The diff adds no process-level stdout write; its klog.Warningf is in a regular controller function, and the OTE main calls klog.LogToStderr(true).
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff adds only standard Go testing subtests with t.Run; it adds no Ginkgo e2e test or public/external network dependency. The HTTP server is an existing local httptest server.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The diff adds OAuth error-cache branching and tests only; it introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret/token comparison.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR diff changes only two OAuth Go files and adds no manifests or privilege settings such as privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, or allowPrivilegeEscalation.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The only added log records the OAuth error value; the diff does not log client_secret, password, access_token, API keys, PII, or customer data. Existing tokenURL logs are unchanged.

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pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions_test.go (1)

375-393: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for unauthorized_client.

The production switch caches unauthorized_client as false, but this test only executes unsupported_grant_type. Add unauthorized_client as a second definitive-unsupported case and assert that it creates a false cache entry.

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In `@pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions_test.go` around lines
375 - 393, Extend the unsupported-grant test coverage around
checkOIDCPasswordGrantFlow to include an unauthorized_client response as a
separate definitive-unsupported case. Reset the cache, invoke the check with the
unauthorized_client payload, and assert no error, a false result, and a false
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions.go`:
- Line 449: Update the warning log in the OIDC token endpoint conversion flow to
omit both the remote error value and tokenURL, including any endpoint or
userinfo data; retain only a generic message that the result was non-definitive
and is not being cached.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@pkg/controllers/configobservation/oauth/idp_conversions_test.go`:
- Around line 375-393: Extend the unsupported-grant test coverage around
checkOIDCPasswordGrantFlow to include an unauthorized_client response as a
separate definitive-unsupported case. Reset the cache, invoke the check with the
unauthorized_client payload, and assert no error, a false result, and a false
entry for test-version-1.

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[liouk]

Overall looks good to me -- just one thing, I noticed there's no test for unauthorized_client; this is low risk as it lives in the same switch case as unsupported_grant_type, but let's add one for completeness.

[everettraven]

/lgtm
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